Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
| Strong's Number: | H5180 |
|---|---|
| Word: | נְחוּשׁתָּן |
| Part of Speech: | Noun/t. |
| Etymology: | from H5178 |
| Language: | Hebrew |
| Occurrences: | 1 |
| Transliteration: | Nchushtan |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | nekh-oosh-tawn' |
| Meaning: | 1. something made of copper, i.e. the copper serpent of the Desert |
| KJV Renderings: | Nehushtan. |
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נְחֻשְׁתָּן proper name, feminine given to bronze serpent 2Kgs 18:4 probably = bronze-god (so Thes, see also BauSemitic Rel. i. 288; compare נְחַשׁ נְחשֶׁת v 2Kgs 18:4; Num 21:9 (twice in verse) ); — chief arg. ag. this are vocalization of ᵐ5 Νεσθαλει, A ᵐ5 L Νε(ε)σθαν, and comparative unimportance of material of which image was made; others think of נָחָשׁ serpent (NöZMG xlii (1888), 482 תן + נחשׁ, Kloon the passage יתן + נחשׁ); LagBN 188, 205 thinks loan-word
Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke
